Category: USA

Fort Bragg (pop. ~7000) is the biggest town we’ll see until San Francisco, so it was good for AAAA batteries (for my PC’s pen), sewing supplies (to patch holes in my Pendleton shirt’s elbows), and the North Coast brewpub (for our first restaurant lunch in a long time). And a toothbrush. I’ve never bought a…

Woke up in the Captain’s Quarters around 7:30am and noticed my phone wasn’t on the (satellite) WiFi anymore. My first groggy thought was: wow, they track the guests and disable the WiFi when they’re checking out. Of course, no. Rett solved it a second later when she realized the power was out! So of course…

Five nights at the Howard Creek Ranch Inn We originally booked three nights at the Howard Creek Ranch, Friday through Sunday, to take shelter from the nearly-continuous rain over that period, with Sunday bringing the record-breakers. Monday promised a break before the last cough of rain Tuesday, which would allow us to continue our hop…

There is beauty in decay. The sea-stacks, the rocky spires, the dark fins that rise against the waves all along this north coast were once not just bound to the land, they were the land. Where they sat for eons unnoticed, invisible amidst uniformity. But endless battering by the ocean waves ground them down, broke…

After a two-night stay under a roof to wait out rain, we had another briefly-open window in which to make a hop southward to a different roof, following the hop-when-we-can strategy we decided to adopt a week earlier in a parking lot in Orick. But we had pretty big doubts as to whether it was…